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Pakistan Says Top Al-Qaida Militant Killed in Raid (A big one - Jafar the Pilot)
ABC/AP ^ | 12/6/14 | MUNIR AHMED Associated Press

Posted on 12/06/2014 7:03:12 AM PST by Straight Vermonter

Pakistani soldiers killed a top al-Qaida operative Saturday who was indicted in the U.S. for his alleged involvement in a plot to bomb New York's subway system, the military said in a statement.

The death of Adnan Shukrijumah is the latest blow to the terror organization still reeling from the 2011 killing of leader Osama bin Laden and now largely eclipsed by the militant Islamic State group. It also marks a major achievement for the Pakistani military, which mounted a widespread military operation in the northwest this summer.

The military announced Shukrijumah's death in a statement, saying that he was killed along with two other suspected militants in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area early Saturday. South Waziristan is part of the mountainous territory bordering Afghanistan that is home to various militant groups fighting both in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"The al-Qaida leader, who was killed by the Pakistan army in a successful operation, is the same person who had been indicted in the United Stated," said a senior Pakistani army officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to journalists.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 201412; adnanshukrijumah; afghanistan; brooklyncell; flcell; floridacell; newyork; newyorkcity; nuclearengineering; pakistan; shukrijumah; southwaziristan; trinidadcell; wmd
This is a big one. He had a US green card and was a pilot. Shortly after 9/11 the concern was that he would train other pilots.

More about him: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/07/al_qaeda_sleeper_age.php

1 posted on 12/06/2014 7:03:12 AM PST by Straight Vermonter
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To: Dog

Thanks for catching this.


2 posted on 12/06/2014 7:03:36 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: LucyT; Velveeta; null and void

Adnan Shukrijumah is dead!


3 posted on 12/06/2014 7:16:14 AM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Are we just taking the Pakistani government’s word for it? It’s not like they like what we did in getting Bin Laden - look what happened with the Doc that helped us.

Just sayin’ ...


4 posted on 12/06/2014 7:35:03 AM PST by Be Free (I believe in gun control. The more people that control their own guns, the safer we'll all be.)
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To: Oorang

WOW! We’ve waited a long time for this news!!!


5 posted on 12/06/2014 7:49:44 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: Be Free

Yeah. If, IF, he is dead, it’s only because Pakistan no longer has any use for him.


6 posted on 12/06/2014 7:49:55 AM PST by null and void (The better I know obama, the less I fear a president Biden.)
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To: Be Free
Are we just taking the Pakistani government’s word for it?

A great man once said, "trust but verify". I'm optimistic though.

7 posted on 12/06/2014 7:53:56 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Any time bud.


8 posted on 12/06/2014 7:58:53 AM PST by Dog (Founding member of the Osama Bin Laden was alive the whole time club..)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Holder is probably pissed that they didn’t capture him so he could brought over for trial.


9 posted on 12/06/2014 8:06:27 AM PST by AU72
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To: Straight Vermonter

Just remember there are lots more to take his place. This will be a never ending story until Jesus returns.


10 posted on 12/06/2014 8:08:37 AM PST by Maudeen
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To: Maudeen

Or we apply the Carthage solution to islam.


11 posted on 12/06/2014 9:23:17 AM PST by null and void (Will the obama love story be called Broke Barack Mountin' or The Love That Dare Not Say Hussein?)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Why does the chicken farmer get rid of a chicken? It is because the chicken is either sick and endangers rest of them, or the chicken is fat and ready for the market.

Pakistan is operating an Al Qaeda farm. From time to time, a terrorist is killed for the price.


12 posted on 12/06/2014 10:16:12 AM PST by sagar
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To: Straight Vermonter

Good riddence


13 posted on 12/06/2014 11:26:49 AM PST by rightistight
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

IOW, he’s been spirited away to a walled compound where he can look at porn, bag a bunch of veiled ugly women, and work on his tan, with no one chasing after his ass.


14 posted on 12/06/2014 12:12:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: SunkenCiv
You're a bad influence. You're making me suspicious of the Paks.
15 posted on 12/07/2014 4:39:26 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: lentulusgracchus

;’)


16 posted on 12/07/2014 6:39:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: AU72

No... Holder seems to have an interest in killing the people we really need to interrogate regarding WMD plots. They’ll capture the others for the legal system but the ones with WMD connections die or disappear or in one case get a 200 some-odd-year prison sentence and are never heard from again.


17 posted on 04/12/2015 11:29:00 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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